💻┃unity-talk

[vivid cedar]

is that exe there or not?

[celest needle]

No, there only is a folder called "BuiltInPackages" the whole /server Folder is missing

How can I fix this or whats my next step?

[south summit]

Lads why when i enable my animator on a gameobject the gameobject gets an 100%100 scale and rotates 90 degrees?

[vivid cedar]

presumably your animation is animating the scale and rotation

And it looks like you've scaled your object to be absolutely TINY by default as well as rotated, so the animator is probably just writing the scale back to 1, 1,1 and the rotation back to 0,0,0

[south summit]

what? might

is there any config that unables that?

[vivid cedar]

If you don't want to animate the scale or rotation, remove those from the animation clip

[south summit]

lmao tiny

😅

[vivid cedar]

I mean honestly I would start by getting this object imported at a normal, reasonable scale

[south summit]

i ddint noticed

ok so not bad idea

soo will be solved?

[vivid cedar]

That's one part of it

again if you don't want to animate the rotation and the scale, don't

[south summit]

ahhh right

[vivid cedar]

that comes down to your animation clips

[south summit]

wait, scale i didnt changed it

i just animated wepaons

obviously needs position plus rotation

[vivid cedar]

#🏃┃animation - show your scrubsheets

but yeah the rotation - the fact that your "normal" rotation is 90 on the x axis - that's going to be a problem if that's not baked into your animation clip

you'll definitely need to fix how your mesh is exported/imported for the rotation at least

[south summit]

So you're telling me that it's only advisable to use position change? And that I shouldn't use rotation and scale?

AHHH its bc is blender

i used blender to animate

soo is a different axis

[vivid cedar]

You need to figure out proper blender export settings to come into Unity correctly

yes

it has a different coordinate system

[south summit]

or create replicating my owns on the unity engine

[slow crypt]

Need teaching I'm brand new to blender and am trying to make a gtag fangame.

[keen elbow]

if I have a shader graph question can that go in this channel or in #💻┃code-beginner

or actually, its moreso just a graphics/shader question in general

[worldly cave]

It goes in #1390346776804069396

As per #📑┃channel-directory

[minor rune]

what did I do wrong? I exported my model with rigged bones (manual) and it is showing up like this in unity

I already checked the flipped normals

its not that

[vivid cedar]

looks a lot like that - but this image is also pretty small/low quality - hard to tell what we're looking at and what it's supposed to look like. Also #🔀┃art-asset-workflow

[minor rune]

oh the left arm and the right leg are only like half of what they should be

[vivid cedar]

yes it looks a lot like the normals on those limbs are reversed

[minor rune]

I have face orientation on

and its not showing red

[vivid cedar]

we should see red or blue - i don't see either

so i'm not convinced it's on

[minor rune]

I was told it only shows blue in older versions

I tried the blender discord already

im on 4.5

blender

[lapis gate]

should still show blue

[vivid cedar]

if you intentionally invert the normal on one of those polygons what happens? Do you see red show up?

Does it start to show properly in Unity?

test it

[minor rune]

yes

but I doubt itll show up properly in unity

also im still learning to rig

I thought I did it properly

but I have to rename some stuff

just bones and vertex groups

[lapis gate]

may not be in the correct viewport, also I believe you can select specific facings with select all filters

other things I'd look for is making sure you do apply modifiers before exporting, and smooth by angle/seam might cause problems too, so make sure you just do the basic smooth shading

auto seam stuff is pretty bad

[minor rune]

apply modifiers is on, I know that much

idk if autoseam is on or used

I got this model from the asset store for free

and I am re rigging it for fun and learning

[minor rune]

I give up on rerigging the model for now

I switched my model back in unity

and now its giving these

idk what im doing rn

so how do I fix these

[kindred canyon]

Having an issue opening Unity: I make a project on Unity Hub but I can't open the project. I'm using 6000.4.5f1 on a M5 Pro Macbook is anyone else having issues with this? Unity 6.4 supports apple silicon... so I'm not sure what the issue is.

[pure hound]

i just pressed this button and completely screwed my camera up on my scene, how do i fix this real quick?

[potent geyser]

?ban 958808618692669491 bot

[novel scarab]

yooo0000 was banned.

[river flare]

it was fake fr

🤡

[fast latch]

I wanted to ask am I on the right path? I got the unity essentials done and now i am doing Create with Code and after that i will do Junior Programmer pathway and Game dev pathway? I am also working on my personal project while i do that on the side

[uncut karma]

Sounds fine to me. To be honest though I don't think there is a 'right path'. Whatever works best for your learning. What is very important is to be applying what you've learned so it becomes almost like muscle memory. So having your own side project is fantastic for that. It's the only way to retain what you've learned conceptually.

[uncut karma]

What's your side project?

[fast latch]

its a 3D food truck simulator i am just making the map rn but i am gonna add features as I learn more stuff over time

i am just importing the assets from unity store and i made a UI screen myself before starting any of these courses so i kinda learned the basics hard way and most of the essential stuff i did while i was just setting up the project

[uncut karma]

Ah lovely. Yes that is one good way to go about it. You can also think about your game in terms of smaller modules/components. Create smaller side projects building out that module/component, learn what works and what doesn't. One you feel you have the all the skills needed build them from scratch in your main project. It can be helpful to be able to break down a project into as many small parts as possible. Helps it also feel more achievable when it get large. It's helped me.

Regardless of which way you go about it you will always find that as you become a better developer there will be things you need to go back and iterate on simply because there's a much better way of doing it. It just comes with the territory.

[uncut karma]

The Asset Store can be great to jump start your learning 🙂

[fast latch]

perfect! thank you for the advise I will keep it in mind for sure!! Thank you!

[uncut karma]

You're welcome, take my advice with a grain of salt though. There's no single perfect or right way. All the best with your project 😊

[stark agate]

when you mirror a mesh manually by scaling by 0.1 you have to manually flip the normals in blender

[hearty willow]

my first message matters, this is what people will see when they check my messages list and sort by oldest...

[tropic shale]

anyway someone can help me find out whats wrong i made sure to put the sholders with the chest but vrchat saying otherwise and it shows its all well in the list

[copper gust]

!vrchat

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[hearty willow]

why is unity avertising VRchat

[potent geyser]

There is no off topic here.

[potent geyser]

Because we get a lot of people asking VRChat specific things and we're not a support server for it, hence the quick bot to redirect.

[barren owl]

today i have woke up and had the random motivation of making a cyberpunk souls like!!!!

[proud rose]

Hey guys i am trying to upload my game as WebGL but the WebGL version looks like this (img 1) instead of this (img 2)

[latent meadow]

perhaps talk to #🌐┃web

[steep pawn]

anyone know why this happens when I import the fbx to unity from blender and overwirte the old one

[sage basin]

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[steep pawn]

settings for export btw

[latent meadow]

#🔀┃art-asset-workflow would be the place to ask

[steep pawn]

ah thank you

[gusty abyss]

there should be a voice chat channel so we can get oblitorated and game jam and produce a free game once a month and have a crowdfund page

srry im feeling a little bit inspired right now hope it lasts

i wanna make a indie game like fat princess on the ps3 but better

[latent meadow]

English server. please use a translator, or talk in DMs @ drthunder

[fair cove]

Sounds like a interesting challenge, though I dont think vc would benifit this community, as that is not really what it is here for - why not start up a community for it yourself though, and see if it works in practice with your studio/games?

[latent meadow]

https://discord.com/channels/489222168727519232/1180178376028327936
also, a section on why there are not, and won't be, here

[charred fog]

@severe portal Don't ping people not in conversations with you. You've been directed where to make collab posts already as well.

[severe portal]

Bro he is my friend

[storm patio]

we don't know that, and have no way of verifying that. for all intents and purposes here it's just another random person

if you'd like to chat personally with your friend, you can do so in DMs

[icy leaf]

Hey, I'm completely new to gamedev. Where should I start? Should I start by following a youtube tutorial step by step to make a game that is not in my head, or start trying to chip away at small bits of what I want to do?

[storm patio]

!learn

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[storm patio]

start small with tiny, self-contained projects to build up skills first

start trying to chip away at small bits of what I want to do?
if you do this now you will probably end up fixing a lot of dumb shit beginner you did that is obviously not good long term in retrospect lol

[icy leaf]

So should these projects be self contained parts of my big game?

Say I want to make a game with blocks like in minecraft, I should make one project file specifically and only for adding block features?

[storm patio]

think about what your dream project entails, all the little features, mechanics, visuals, audio, effects, etc

it would be absolute hell to learn all those things at once

and the resulting project won't be very good - it'll be hard to work with, since you made stuff when you didn't have much experience yet

[icy leaf]

Right, yeah

[storm patio]

making smaller projects to learn the ropes makes that process much easier since you can play with more isolated aspects

[icy leaf]

So this idea to approach is good?

[storm patio]

So should these projects be self contained parts of my big game?
definitely not parts. you can use the big game as the basis or inspiration for that small game, but don't expect to compose them into your big game later

[icy leaf]

Makes sense

[storm patio]

the "one project file" for learning that feature part is kinda up to you. i have a single project that i use for throwaway testing, but multiple could work as well

[icy leaf]

My goal for today is to learn how to implement Minecraft style blocks into a game. No behaviour like mining or placing, just the blocks for now.

[plain iron]

I havent really started working with visuals yet aside from a few small things. I hear people often complain about Unity because of some kind of "serialized" aspect of it where visuals and some other things live inside unity or something independent of the code and apparently thats normal for game engines? Is anyone aware if Unreal engine C++ has this same problem?

[dusky forum]

Are you referring to block type physics, block/cluster generation relative to performance, block generation relative to world-biome building algorithm, block destruction animation, etc
There's a lot going on with blocks in Minecraft.

[storm patio]

wouldn't this be better answered by like, asking in an unreal server

[icy leaf]

No generation like land or different types of blocks and stuff, no animation stuff

[plain iron]

Not really because im not sure all the aspects that unity even has this seriaized problem

[icy leaf]

Just a scene where a player can move around and bump into blocks, and maybe place them

Doesn't need to be polished at all

No terrain generation

[storm patio]

you're asking whether unreal has a thing. in a unity server

i also don't think that's a problem, separation of concerns is typically a benefit

[plain iron]

Im speaking kind of vague about it because i dont even know what the thing im fully talking about is which would help for clarification

[storm patio]

that's unrelated to "serialization" though

[storm patio]

we aren't telepathic or all-knowing. you're vaguely describing an issue that may or may not exist and you want us to clarify it?

there's not much to go off of there

[dusky forum]

You should rephrase your first question. There seems to be a lot of partial or ambiguous hints/suggestions but nothing discrete. Your second question about Unreal engine should be asked on an Unreal server.

[wise yacht]

Does anyone run into this problem? If i setup an inspector field like so on some gameobject/scriptable object:

[SerializeField] private MyComponentHere obj;

then i'm able to drag in a prefab which has the MyComponentHere component attached to its root. However, if I press the small circle button to get the asset browser (the one that has Scene and Assets options), it doesn't show me anything, even if there are prefabs in my project with MyComponentHere as their root.

[latent meadow]

#💻┃code-beginner

[plain iron]

People often criticize using unity because they dont like that a portion of the game's "meat and potatoes" is locked behind unity specific features instead of being some kind of holistic code product. I am wondering what that specific aspect of unity is called and if other game engines have it

I am pretty sure the prefab system is code independent so i imagine that would be 1 aspect of it

[storm patio]

i would guess that the asset browser thing only goes through the asset type at the top level, which would be GameObject i guess? (not sure, i typically don't use it for prefabs)

whereas when you use component types, it has to go into the gameobject and get the specific component

[copper gust]

The default Unity search doesn’t support it iirc

You can enable the “newer” one in preferences(?) iirc but it requires automatic indexing from time to time

[wise yacht]

Ooh ok I'll have a look at that

[storm patio]

that specific aspect
the description you gave is not very specific

[plain iron]

Brother anyone who does game dev pro would know what im talking about

[storm patio]

many many apps in software have this kind of thing, im not sure it would have a specific name

[plain iron]

Well there must be something unique about unity if i hear game devs of other platforms complain about it

[storm patio]

unreal and godot and gamemaker and every other engine will have things that aren't portable to other game engines too

[storm patio]

then describe the thing you're talking about more uniquely

[copper gust]

serialised and/or baked assets in resource files vs. games like slay the spire and balatro having their content baked directly into scripts?

[copper gust]

the amount of people who use Unity is probably the unique factor

[storm patio]

(also, might i add - there are 2 kinds of engines, those that people complain about and those that people don't use)

[copper gust]

i hate unity it’s awesome

[plain iron]

People do not like that part of your game basically has to run in unity features. You cannot just write up a game and expect it to work in unity even if ur coding in the game engine's language, i think

[copper gust]

Those people are dumb or wrong or you haven’t understood their complaint

[storm patio]

part of your game basically has to run in unity features.
this is true for every engine
You cannot just write up a game and expect it to work in unity even if ur coding in the game engine's language, i think
this is not true

[copper gust]

you can make a unity game with 0 game objects

0 serialised assets

[storm patio]

you could probably have a single empty scene and manage everything through code. it'd be hell but it's possible

there are callbacks that run on the main thread

[copper gust]

it’s not even that bad tbh

[storm patio]

well, true, would just be a pain (relatively) to bootstrap

the rest would be relatively typical

[dusky forum]

Do you've got some link to this source of criticism? I would need to evaluate the scope to determine if the claims have any weight. When using a game engine, you should expect to sacrifice some level of control for convenience. If you're wanting more control, try a game framework instead. Note that you'll probably spend more time making your own engine than making your games.

[stuck flower]

What is the "serialized problem"?

[latent meadow]

Yep. was doing too much at once and did not take the time to read it clearly. thumbs down earned.

[uncut karma]

All game engines have pros and cons. Unity, Unreal and Gadot are capable of creating visually wonderful environments and technical marvels.

[pastel onyx]

Hey guys I had a quick question

[pastel onyx]

There is and it's a bit interesting

[uncut karma]

What you might be trying to articulate and please correct me if I'm wrong sort of ties back into the old argument that games end up being better in Unreal? Not saying you agree with that sentiment has been around for a very long time. I'm not sure if this is still the case but I remember back in the day this visual argument stemmed from the fact that when you created a new Unreal project post processing was automatically enabled which gave the impression that the engine just had better visuals out of the gate.

Of course I don't agree with any of that and you can make a bad game in any game engine. It can be a visual nightmare and a technical disaster. That's often no the engine's fault but the developer/s.

Unity isn't perfect. No engine is. Still today I believe texture streaming is an issue for Unreal. I could be wrong there as I haven't used it in a while but I remember that always being a 'feature' of UE games.

[pastel onyx]

Godot has a nodes system for game development, you make stuff in games by using nodes. Nodes have properties like mesh renderer, collision etc. the system is good and easy but it's not really good enough for making big games and the physics engine of godot is BAD.

Unreal has an entity system for game dev and logic where there is stuff like pawns and actors and stuff like that, it's good and fast but the learning curve is higher.

Unity is a bit different and EXTREMELY easier since it uses 3 things for game dev and logic. Scenes, Gameobjects and Components. Scenes are like levels that can also be used in stuff like the main menu, Gameobjects are any objects in a scene, components are attached to gameobjects to give them properties like physics, mesh, sounds, lights etc. components can also be custom Scripts made by the dev.

[plain iron]

I guess I mean like you could not just take the master folder of your game and go show it to some software developer and they could look at it and determine (If they were smart enough) how everything works together. But my perception of unity is that (And some people really dont like it) that you could literally not tell a fair amount of what a game is and how it works just based off looking at the master folder. Because unity has a lot of unity specific things that basically your game 'lives on' rather than beign its own holistic product. Some people say you could create a game (No i dont mean like snake or 2D) merely from just typing code. And i do not think that is the case of being possible for unity and people dont like it

[copper gust]

It is possible in unity

You can determine what engine a game is in by looking at any game

that is a worthless fact

[pastel onyx]

Exactly

[plain iron]

How is that possible if (I think) visuals live in unity and not the code. And i dont mean making some jank vertices mesh with code or something

[pastel onyx]

You can just look at stuff in a folder

[copper gust]

Visuals don’t have to live in unity

[plain iron]

right but i think the alternative is like really really bad alternatives

[copper gust]

you can load them via file easy, or draw directly

Yeah thats why unity provides their own solution

what other option are you expecting

[dusky forum]

That would be the choice you'd make

[rough field]

Visuals live in shaders, you can write your own rendering in unity if you want just with code

[copper gust]

(Making meshes from code is not necessarily jank btw)

It kinda feels like the equivalent of driving into a mcdonalds drive thru and being mad they offered you fries

[plain iron]

Well im not mad about it because i dont fully understand the complaint that i see unreal people make about unity in this aspect

[stuck flower]

This process you've described basically hasn't been a thing for thirty years.

Any video game is going to contain assets that aren't code. Roller Coaster Tycoon's use of pure assembly is note worthy because of how exceptional it is

[copper gust]

No one here understands it either

[plain iron]

There is something here fundamentally different between UE and unity and im failing to understand

[copper gust]

a ton of things

they are different

[plain iron]

But this sounds exactly like what UE people are criticizing. I AM SO CONFUSED

I am going to crash out man

[copper gust]

what sounds like what

[pastel onyx]

Ok man tell me what's wrong

[stuck flower]

Maybe instead of trying to find out which group of laymen you want to base your opinions on, you could actually try forming one yourself

[abstract umbra]

As I understand it, you’re trying to choose a game engine based on earlier discussions. It seems like you’re focusing too much on potential future problems that each engine might cause.

At this stage, that might not be the most helpful approach—especially if the questions and goals aren’t fully clear yet. Instead, it would make more sense to focus on what you actually like about each engine and what works best for you right now.

In other words, choose based on the strengths that appeal to you, rather than getting stuck worrying about possible downsides that may never become relevant.

[copper gust]

em dash jumpscare

[plain iron]

Thats the problem im mentioning something that i hear UE devs say in passing criticizing unity and i dont fully understand what they mean. Like they expect games to be discernible all from code like the roller coaster tycoon example, except scaled up to much bigger games

[copper gust]

That doesn’t sound like something unreal devs would say

[storm patio]

if you're confused about stuff UE people are saying, perhaps ask the UE people to elaborate

[stuck flower]

That's not how video games work.

[copper gust]

and specifically not how unreal works

[pastel onyx]

UE devs(including me) are full of dogshit.

Any engine can be good and bad, depends on how the developer made the game, if your assets and game physics work like jank then it's your fault and not the fault of the engine

[plain iron]

Wait wait wait

Can visuals in UE be seen in visual scripts or something?

[pastel onyx]

By visuals you mean the renderer?

Dude just tell me you have no idea how game dev works?

[plain iron]

I mean anything u can physically see in the game, be immediately represented in some kind of code or script system

I dont mean like store in a .asset folder

[copper gust]

yes, in any engine yes

it has to be yes

[pastel onyx]

That's what a renderer is.
Yes you can see the code of the renderer either in the engine itself or it's source code

[plain iron]

Ok but I keep hearing UE people say u cant in unity

[copper gust]

those people are either wrong or you misunderstood them

[pastel onyx]

I'm not really sure about unity since I never had to check the source code ever

[copper gust]

you can’t

it’s not public

[abstract umbra]

just watch some youtube videos for most popular game engines comparison(minimum 5)

[copper gust]

but you don’t need to because there’s public functions for it and every engine has to do it otherwise how could it load it any other way

[stuck flower]

You can't even see scripts in script in UE, it's all blueprints

Unreal engine barely uses actual code at all

[plain iron]

Ive seen UE job positions not even allow coding at all so idk whats UE whole deal is

But blueprint seems annoying

[stuck flower]

It's all UE-specific bespoke file formats that can't be used anywhere else. Unity is at least mostly plain C#

Just referencing a Unity library

[plain iron]

All of this sounds so similar to their own criticisms of unity whatever man

Im just going to ignore it, but thanks for all ur clarifications

[stuck flower]

Whatever weird criticisms you heard were misunderstood by them not knowing unity and you not knowing anything so we're trying to make sense of something twice-removed from reality so it's pointless to try to divine whatever idea you've imagined into a real criticism

[pastel onyx]

So you're telling me that you were here to disrespect unity?

[plain iron]

? i use unity i dont use unreal

[pastel onyx]

So what really was your problem? That you can't see the source code of unity?

[uncut karma]

That's just software development in general though. To be clear, as others have stated. All of the scripts, assets and extensions are available for browsing in the project folder. It's accessible. Whether or not it's easily understood is a matter of project architecture, the size of the project and the person reviewing the project.

But none of this is limited to game development. That's just software development in general.

[icy leaf]

I want to add a block placing function with the grid that already exists in game

[pastel onyx]

Whatever guys I need some small help

I need a new animation software

[icy leaf]

How do I go about this? Do I add a player first or do I add the grid first and a function to make all blocks appear within the grid?

Where should I look?

[storm patio]

make the underlying systems first, eg having a grid

[pastel onyx]

So you want to make something like minecraft?

[icy leaf]

Yeah

[copper gust]

if this is your first game this might be quite a bit to take on

[pastel onyx]

I suggest you make a player controller first.

And then work on the placing system

[icy leaf]

It's a game I want to make but I need to break it into small parts to learn

[plain iron]

Hasnt minecraft's code basically been 1:1 reverse engineered? He probably has a reference to look at all times

[pastel onyx]

That's not a good way.

It's like saying I want to make GTA 5 as a first game but since I am a beginner I'll only make a small part

[copper gust]

That doesn’t mean much to someone new to making games

[icy leaf]

So should I just go to youtube and follow someone else's tutorial to making games and just copy it step by step?

[dusky forum]

You've got quite a few options. Consider checking the asset store for pre-built features. Other than that, you could create some plane to represent the floor and raycast to spawn objects relative to some grid etc

[copper gust]

!learn

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[copper gust]

Is a good starting point too

[pastel onyx]

Yes

That's how I started

[icy leaf]

What games have you made so far if I may ask?

[pastel onyx]

I started by making stupid asset flip games

Now I'm rebuilding my portfolio

Currently I'm making a awesome pizza delivery game

Before this I made a Postal 2 remake

And before this I made a doom like fps shooter

[icy leaf]

I'll try this first and if it doesn't work I'll copy some youtube tutorials. I'm gonna see which works.

[uncut karma]

Both yes and no. It can be a great way to quickly build something that is close to what you were wanting but if you're not truly understanding and just copying what is on the screen then you aren't actually learning why you did what you did.

[pastel onyx]

If you ask me then I make open world games mostly

[uncut karma]

I'm not saying don't do it, I'm just encouraging you to dig a bit deeper than what the video might be showing you. You might not find a video that creates exactly what you're after and you don't want to find yourself in a situation where you have all this components that you don't really understand how they work.

[icy leaf]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EubjobNVJdM&list=PLxI8V1bns4ExV7K6DIrP8BByNSKDCRivo

I see this tutorial but Doom said to add a player controller first

[uncut karma]

But if you spend the time playing around and testing and extending on what you've learned then that will go a long way to retaining the information.

[copper gust]

I’m just a random Internet stranger and whatever you want to work on is probably the best option if it gets you doing stuff but ideally your first couple projects while learning how unity works probably wouldn’t have procedural generation or block placing/destroying in them at all

It’s kinda like trying to write a book in a language you can’t speak

[abstract umbra]

destroying is actually super easy, unless you want some fancy visuals

[icy leaf]

I need to know how to add a character and player controller to hierarchy first 😅

[uncut karma]

I can't specifically speak to that. I've not made a voxel based system before. I've never needed to. I have however created grid based systems for pathfinding. Personally I think understanding grid based systems would be a good foundational place to start.

[copper gust]

understanding how components work, basic c#, raycasts etc etc cone way before grid systems

[icy leaf]

Do I need to read a c# book or just the parts I need in the documentation?

[copper gust]

probably neither

tutorials covering those kinda things specifically of super introductory tutorials that go over that stuff along the way

eg

!learn

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[abstract umbra]

When i started with unity i also wanted to begin with a player because its the central point of every player-oriented game. After 1.5 years i still havent done the player properly, not the way i want it to be. Its not a beginner friendly task

[uncut karma]

As IAmBatby has directed you to there's a lot of free information out there. The fact you've opened unity is a good start. You need to learn the basics. By that I mean what the basics in the engine are. From the layout, scene view vs game view. The Inspector. Components. Al of that before you even start writing code. That should all be on the Unity. The 'Tour the Unity Editor' over via the Unity Learn link would be a good place to start.

[icy leaf]

I know Unity a little bit because I did a c# youtube tutorial where I learned how to add a sign and change my name and last name on the sign, but I've forgotten it now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uW-GbHrtQc

This tutorial is pretty cool

[uncut karma]

Brackeys has a lot of helpful tutorials that cover engine layout. The problem you have at the moment is that you don't know what to search for to do the thing you want to do.

[icy leaf]

Yeaaahhhh well put lmao

[uncut karma]

It's a problem we all had at one point.

[icy leaf]

Trying to read a dictionary while blind

[uncut karma]

Not quite as bad but I appreciate the sentiment 😊

This is what I did before getting into game development. I made a whole bunch of games from tutorials that had nothing to do with the game I wanted to make 😄

But the end result was learning.

[icy leaf]

Unrelated question but how close was the idea in your head to the actual game, and did the iterations take you far away from the initial idea?

[uncut karma]

Learning things that would eventually end up being useful.

[uncut karma]

Close, but as you highlighted game design/development is an iterative process. Often what you draw or design seems like a fun idea in isolation but once it's online with other features it might not feel as fun or it might not just be what it needs to be so it evolves. Even if it lands really well the first time you will most likely make changes down the line for similar reasons that are driven by other features or it's now the combination of features that gives you a new idea which you just never would have thought of before until getting things into a functional state 🙂

[icy leaf]

Your working memory is limited so it's hard to keep everything in your head and keep track of all the problems ahead of time

[uncut karma]

It's not even that. You don't know what you don't know and there will always be massive problems you didn't anticipate. So you have adjust.

The joys of game development.

Or just software development in general.

But don't worry. Games are just a bunch of tiny problems 🙂

You work them out one at a time.

[uncut karma]

But look, I can't encourage you enough to start making some other games first. Smaller games. Calculator games, platformers, tower defence games. All of these might seem like that have nothing to do with the game you wnat to make but really they will.

Still have your game project and try to dabble in it when you can but if that is your focus now, you might not progress very far with it because of the challenges. But if you achieve smaller projects from start to finish that can really encourage you. You can also then get those games in the hands of your friends and start getting feedback. Constructive criticism seems like an easy thing to receive but it can be quite hard so getting good at that is also really important.

[icy leaf]

Awesome

[harsh light]

anyone have a quick link on how i can upgrade me unity plan to include MCP connections? Was working last week and apparently now i need to upgrade me plan to allow them

[ivory stream]

Where's my create action button guys?

[vivid cedar]

You're looking at the PlayerInput component. You need to be looking at the actions asset which is referenced here

click that and double click to open it from the project window

[ivory stream]

Thank you my guy (:

[uncut karma]

All the very best with it! Although not exactly the grid based system you want/need perhaps start here. It's a tower defence series by Brackeys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beuoNuK2tbk&list=PLPV2KyIb3jR4u5jX8za5iU1cqnQPmbzG0

[icy leaf]

Do you write what you did to make the games to avoid forgetting things?

[uncut karma]

It will teach you a lot of fundamentals

[uncut karma]

What do you mean sorry?

[violet thunder]

You can add comments to your code so when you come back to it you have some notes that might help with remembering what it does

[uncut karma]

If you do something 100 times it becomes muscle memory almost.

[near wigeon]

imo more important comment the thought process to why you used a specific way of doing thing ,rather than explain what specific lines of code do. Good code is pretty self evident on what it does

[uncut karma]

Which is why working on lots of smaller projects that require a lot of similar core fundamental code can be helpful.

[ivory stream]

By accident i clicked 7zip to open this script and now i dont know how to change it ): Where can i reset it?

[storm patio]

the Player_Movement script?

check your preferences > external tools and make sure the right ide is set, i guess?

[ivory stream]

yup

[gray frigate]

double clicking the script may still use the Windows file association

i'm actually not sure how that works

so, if you have the right editor set in External Tools but it's still opening wrongly, you'll need to:

• browse to the project in Explorer
• right click a .cs script
• use "Open With" to select the right editor

[ivory stream]

I double click it and sadly it just says that it cant be opened with 7zip

[gray frigate]

you'll hit "Choose another app" to pull up a window that lets you pick an application and make it the default

[ivory stream]

Translation

Ops

I meant

,,You cant open a file

[gray frigate]

yes, you need to follow the steps I described here

(this is done entirely outside of Unity; i am talking about Windows Explorer)

[ivory stream]

sorry i didnt understand it properly then. I 'll try again

[ivory stream]

Oh

that makes sense

[violet thunder]

That advice is common for actual development, my advice was more for when you're learning. You aren't writing good code at this point

It's not something I did but I've seen people do it, might work for some, depends on your learning style

[near wigeon]

o yeah for sure, wasnt discrediting your advice or anything, just adding onto cause it reminded me comments a bit from my past. I feel like a lot of the comments as beginner reads like AI comments (done this myself in beginning too)
like

//set player gravity
player.Gravity =  SetGravity();```

[gray frigate]

yes, these comments are, at best, useless

at worst, they are wrong

I write comments when I get surprised by something

okay, sometimes i just write comments because i'm annoyed

here's a better example

[near wigeon]

// it is 4am, i should be sleeping but here I am trying to fix a bug

[gray frigate]

this is part of a function that places objects along a series of points

[storm patio]

hm i put those in commit messages instead

[violet thunder]

A lot of my comments are also basically just keywords for easy searching in the IDE

[gray frigate]

good commit messages are a godsend

[storm patio]

i used to use //-- a ton as a temp marker lol

[gray frigate]

i recently saw someone have an interesting problem where a value was getting serialized even though it was private

i remembered observing this behavior in a game over a year ago

% git log | grep NonSerialized -C10

bang, found the commit where I fixed a related issue

[storm patio]

oh yeah nah i do use conventional commits in proper long-lived projects, but i just kinda did whatever for a group project where the others didn't know about that lol

[charred fog]

I encountered that when I think I was doing a custom inspector and kept hitting a recursion warning about serialization. Because Unity internally serializes everything as well.

[gray frigate]

commits I submit to other people's repos get very extensive messages

[charred fog]

I was doing a circular reference and it really did not like it

[gray frigate]

can you guess which one i wrote 💔

i mean, the names are in there

i think i ruined the mystery

[brisk inlet]

@gray frigate Is this how I should comment my code? I don't want to leave too much to the imagination...

[gray frigate]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/K8GQcE-XwK0

[storm patio]

i feel like this would, ironically, be 100% up to the imagination, because no-one's going to read that lmao

[gray frigate]

the cherry on top would be if the function didn't actually work right

it just decremented currentLine or something

[storm patio]

technically that comment is documenting the field

[storm patio]

oh i thought it'd be conventionalcommits, are you aware of that?

it's not a hard rule by any means but it's a pretty handy convention
https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/

[gray frigate]

i've seen that style before, but i haven't seen it formalized

[opaque silo]

Can we talk about some devs who drastically increase their prices just before the launch of Flash Deals so that when it is discounted it just falls back to the regular price ?! Customer get tricked by this greedy behavior ! 😤 reminds me increasing prices from Black Friday period...
Can the UAS indicate the last 30 days maximum price of an asset without discount ? At least give the possibility to let the user explain why the price is changing up/down somehow ? either for temporary deal regardless of Unity promos...

[charred fog]

@pliant prism It is in fact against the rules. Read #📖┃code-of-conduct , please

[brisk inlet]

Yea doing this shouldn't be allowed imo

[ivory stream]

Why I don't have ,,move" option in player movement?

[abstract umbra]

does the Move method have public access? how many parameters it expects? iirc it doesnt show up when its more than 1

[regal cobalt]

needs to be a public void to appear on the dropdown

[covert turret]

Guys! I bought a game template, in order to publish it, do i need to absolutely redo everything from character models to ui and maps, or can i just change a thing or two

[potent geyser]

That's up to the license of said game template. But one might assume you could technically upload it as is. But good luck getting any traffic for a 1:1 asset flip. It's not the secret to making money.

What template is it?

[ivory stream]

Sorry for my incompatance, so as far as i understand, should i change something here?

[potent geyser]

You have no Move method in this script.

[gray frigate]

oh, were you expecting to be able to modify moveInput, pethaps?

[ocean night]

Does anyone know how to make it so player actually exits the fall state when landing on falling platforms? right now the character "lands" on falling platforms but will keep the momentum of the fall state and easily slip off the platform

[gray frigate]

see https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.19/manual/PlayerInput.html for how to use PlayerInput

you're using the "Invoke Unity Events" mode

so, see that section

[ivory stream]

Mhm, so i'll watch the tutorial again i guess, i thought i did everything alright

[potent geyser]

How are you handling killing off the momentum when it's landing on the ground? Do that but also for the platform?

[ivory stream]

I'll check it for sure

[gray frigate]

You've skipped a step for sure

[covert turret]

It's the Squad Shooter from Watermelon Games, I run a few youtube shorts channels where the main audience is kids, I've worked with some mobile games before, but i'd like to own my own asset that i can promote, therefore traffic isn't a problem i'd say. I don't have any experience in Unity or whatsoever, I'm wondering if it could be worth giving it a shot and whether i need to put a lot of effort in remaking the template :)

[potent geyser]

You are allowed to use this project template in your commercial game. You are not allowed to distribute or resell the source code, assets and files contained in this package. You are allowed to distribute or sell the compiled executable created using this. Refer to the Unity Asset Store EULA for reference: https://unity3d.com/legal/as_terms```

[abstract umbra]

Try to also question yourself a bit why youre doing what youre doing because following a tutorial blindly is not gonna teach you much. When you search for a "Move" method in the PlayerMovement script its basically you deciding what should happen when a player clicks that button. As was pointed already above, you dont even have that Move method at all

[ivory stream]

I fixed it. Thank you guys. My child is moving

[covert turret]

Thanks! Will App Store and Google Play have any issues if the game is already published

[potent geyser]

That's up to them, but they're cracking down on low effort uploads.

[ocean night]

I'm already doing that

[violet thunder]

Doesn't seem to be working 🤔

Are you sure your ground check is properly detecting the platforms as ground?

Should probably show your code (in a code channel) to get more help

[shadow heron]

I have been using a spherecast for ground detection and sometimes when the player / ball ends up in a area where the ground is uneven like in the imagine the player gets stuck. I want to make a better ground detection system. Do you think I should stop using spherecast and use multiple rays like in the image shown? any suggestions?

[violet thunder]

Sounds more like a slope handling issue than ground check issue

Couldn't the player for example jump out of that hole?

Or you can allow it to walk on steep slopes (like in the image) for a limited time, to get out of crevices

[potent geyser]

Either let the player just jump out, reset their position or solve this in level design by knowing your constraints and not making such sharp pits like that.

[gray frigate]

Why does the player get stuck?

Are they considered airborne?

[pastel onyx]

Hi so I have a small problem

I need a new animation software, I've been using Mixamo for a long time now and I'm a happy man.

The point is that I need an animation of 2 humans dancing together with holding hands and stuff

I'm not really interested in making my own in blender since it's pretty hard

[violet thunder]

You can only get so far with libraries of premade anims like mixamo, when you need a very specific animation. Either look for other libraries, hire an animator, or do it yourself

[stuck flower]

• Good
• Fast
• Cheap

Pick two.

[icy leaf]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uW-GbHrtQc

I did this and it was pretty fun. Just paste in someone else's script, lol

I understand a bit of it but I wouldn't be able to write the script from scratch by myself

[pastel onyx]

Just yet

Copy enough times until the brain adapts

[harsh light]

not until you try ❤️

[pastel onyx]

It's like studying shit in history

At first it's hard to remember names

Some time later you would know who farted near the leaning tower of Pisa in 534BC

[storm patio]

nah, this kind of stuff you need to put some more thought into than rote memorization

[pastel onyx]

Yeah ik

I'm literally joking

[storm patio]

doesn't read like that, some beginners could read that and take it as advice

[pastel onyx]

Yeah I'm pretty bad at jokes

[violet thunder]

Custom character controllers can get super complex too, depending on your project needs and map geometry
Lots of annoying edge cases

[pastel onyx]

I believe that when you copy you learn

Memorizing for me includes understanding the script

Unlike other guys

[storm patio]

memorizing and understanding tend to be separate things entirely in education terms

[stuck flower]

"Memorizing" code isn't learning it. I can repeat "Omelette Du Fromage" as much as I want but that doesn't mean I know French

[storm patio]

you may be interested in Bloom's taxonomy

[tranquil swallow]

Man it's funny seeing unity ai come and everyone is just asking "can I get it to work with claude code"

[drowsy lintel]

@prime hearth can we talk in DMs?

-# you probably know what I’m gonna ask you…

[storm patio]

right let's not do that here thanks

#📖┃code-of-conduct please don't mention random people you aren't having a convo with

[stuck flower]

Do not ping random users you're not already in a conversation with.

Considering that user literally has never posted anything in this server, I'd say this counts

[drowsy lintel]

He knows me. We’ve talked quite a few times in another server. Ik he hasn’t talked here before.

[tranquil swallow]

oooh a business kerfuffle?

[stuck flower]

Then you should talk to them somewhere else

[ocean night]

please help im desperate

[potent geyser]

You haven't actually described how "you're already doing that".

Nobody can hazard a guess unless they understand what you're actually doing.

[gentle saddle]

Something weird happened to me. I tried to implement the Cinemachine Target Group camera system, and after I manually added two objects to the group and changed the radius, the camera flew away and didn’t come back—even after I reverted everything (even Ctrl + Z didn’t work). But as soon as I start the project, the camera flies back 👀 . Can someone help me with this?

[potent geyser]

Probably need to show a video of the issue

[untold gale]

guys is there a way to make the void the same as the sky? i used to simply make clear flags color blue

[gray frigate]

For HDRP, you'll want to use a "Visual Environment" volume component to control what the sky looks like

you can pick a Gradient Sky, then just make all of its colors the same

(you'll need to also add the Gradient Sky volume component, to control what the gradient sky actually looks like)

you can set both of these up on this object, which should have a Volume component

[rocky moon]

Can a flight simulator work out in unity?

Especially that I wanna make every button functional

[potent geyser]

I don't see why not?

[worldly cave]

c# is turing complete, so literally anything could work in Unity

[rocky moon]

I only saw flight Sims being made in unreal engine so I was wondering

[gentle saddle]

looks like I can't post video here?

I can send you if you wanna see it

[potent geyser]

You can post videos here

[rocky moon]

Now I'm sure I'm gonna make this project

[potent geyser]

This is way too far from the world origin. You need to center your world around the 0,0,0.

What is the position of your enemy model, for example?

[gentle saddle]

I KNOW MAN! But the camera just flying away, I can't....

[worldly cave]

your camera isnt flying away, it is away, some 50k units away from the center on all 3 axis, and is trying to come back

[gentle saddle]

I can't EVEN reset the camera, just flying away after I try the reset it...

[untold gale]

ty friend 😃

[worldly cave]

something is changing the transform of your camera at runtime

[potent geyser]

What is the position of the the other target in the group?

[gentle saddle]

Okey I'm making another video to show you 😄

[tawny quail]

Is the target group supposed to be a child of the cinemachine camera

[gentle saddle]

I tried to set the position to 1 and then it overrides

[worldly cave]

what are the transform values of "CameraFocus "

[stuck flower]

Move your target group off of the camera.

[gentle saddle]

do you the camera what it gives me when I create a target Group?

[stuck flower]

Don't make the target group a child of your camera

[gentle saddle]

wellll. It works lol

I watched a tutorial where he put under that's why I did it too

[stuck flower]

What tutorial?

[gentle saddle]

On udemy from GameDev 😄

[stuck flower]

Can you show a screenshot of where it's made a child object in that tutorial?

[gentle saddle]

sure, it's an old video btw but, so he is not using the current version, just give me a min

[stuck flower]

Is this Cinemachine 2 or 3?

[gentle saddle]

I don't know, as I said it's an old video

[stuck flower]

It's probably Cinemachine 2 then, which you don't appear to be using.

[gentle saddle]

I will pay attention to it, thanks for the help. You saved my sanity xdd

and sry my english is not the best yet 😄

[brisk inlet]

those trees look like WoW trees in goldshire

[gentle saddle]

kinda 😄

[chrome meteor]

Hi

[tame plume]

I wan to try the new AI assistant, but I click on agree and install and it seems there are errors in package dependencies. Anyone else experiencing this? I am 6000.3.3

[upper widget]

Is there anyone that could help me with the Navigation Mesh stuff? The Nav Mesh for my project won't bake

[turbid vapor]

This is a toggle option to show the baked result

[worldly cave]

#🤖┃ai-navigation

[turbid vapor]

People, what shaders use for the standard palm in the URP?

[plain dagger]

palm? Most things can be done with URP/Lit and URP/Simple Lit. URP/Complex Lit offers additional features for advance applications

[turbid vapor]

Simple Lit

[plain dagger]

alpha cut out or disable "preserve transparent alpha" or similar i forget the exact option
also adjust metallic + specular as needed

[turbid vapor]

Thank you, but looks like billboards are blue in the in-game & scene view

[stuck flower]

Who are you quoting

[worldly cave]

I just googled it and i fail to see whats so special about that specific kind of phone?

looks like a run of the mil android phone to me

why would anyone need specific technical testing for that device?

[covert turret]

anyone knows a good place to hire devs for some simple work

😔

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[plain dagger]

Implies some shader issue or issue with the texture used, are these billboards from unity terrain?

ask more in #1390346776804069396

[turbid vapor]

From Unity terrain

[plain dagger]

share a screenshot of the whole material

[plain dagger]

Looks normal to me. Head over to #1390346776804069396 or #1391720450752516147 for more targeted help

[turbid vapor]

👌
I found the thread - https://discord.com/channels/489222168727519232/1403776609625837609
So, I can ask here instead of creating chaos

Thank you!

[plain dagger]

Oh good idea! that is a good find

[tardy bridge]

Hello, a stupid question for today 🙂
For Unity 6, what is more efficient/optimal and takes up fewer resources/calculations?
Box collider or Mesh collider (convex or not)
(maybe something changed in the latest version of unity)

[stuck flower]

Primitive shapes will always be better than a mesh collider

[tardy bridge]

and by primitive, you mean.. box colliders? 😅

[stuck flower]

Box, sphere, capsule

[worldly cave]

surprisingly no cylinder

[tardy bridge]

so from those imported assets, with mesh colliders already in... I have then to remove everything in order to add box colliders (for doors, structures, buildings and so on), right?
Are you doing this in the same way?

[median slate]

been tryna look for a solution to this issue so imma try getting help here

I can't drag anything into my project, and now, i cant drag anything inside the unity project, cant drag folders into folders now! and i really dont want to be forced to use explorer every time, it gets to a point... :,]

i used to have google drive back up all my projects but i realize that could be the cause of the issue, so i disabled it, but no luck :[

[storm patio]

that generally is an issue in itself btw, you should not try to sync projects like that

there are a lot of volatile files

[worldly cave]

If you need to backup your project use version control

[storm patio]

if you want backups, the proper way is to use vcs, but you could also copy the project into a separate drive as a temporary thing

[worldly cave]

i mean primitive colliders are cheaper... but not so much cheaper that it would be worth doing what you are describing....

[storm patio]

have you tried resetting the library?

[median slate]

elaborate? I really only have surface knowledge on unity, i do want to add

[worldly cave]

go into the project files

find the "Library" folder

and delete it

then reopen the project

[storm patio]

while the project is closed

[median slate]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1311617141841334333/1500951040076546260/ezgif.com-video-to-gif-converter.gif

oh right, no perms

[storm patio]

in your project folder there's a Library folder that's used for caching and more volatile data (one of the reasons you shouldn't sync projects)
sometimes stuff gets messed up there (should you blame caching?)
deleting the folder (while the project is closed) and then reopening the project lets unity rebuild the library, hopefully clearing up any corrupted stuff (if that was the cause)

[storm patio]

wow, unity 2022 supports windows 7?

[worldly cave]

Maybe it doesnt

and maybe that might be the cause of some issues

[storm patio]

yeah no it apparently does

make sure you're not opening the hub/editor as administrator, iirc?

[abstract fog]

Anyone have trouble with puppet master? I set it up and it worked but I set up a new model and it balls up

[median slate]

WHAT are you MAKING

[abstract fog]

It’s not what it looks like

I’m making a mission similar to another vr game where you kill Osama

[vagrant pawn]

Guys I have a game Idea really cool one I just dont know how to make proper games but I can code anyone intrested

[stuck flower]

!learn

[vagrant root]

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[vagrant pawn]

ik but I want to give the idea to someone who can make something great out of it

[stuck flower]

!collab

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[stuck flower]

But ideas are cheap. If you want to make it, you should probably learn to make it yourself.

[vagrant pawn]

yeah I am looking for someone

[stuck flower]

So look at the bot message that tells you where to go

[ivory sage]

Hey guys

i subscribed to the unity ai thing, it says it contains 1 mcp connection

but i still cant connect my claude code mcp

[potent geyser]

#1202574086115557446

Looks like someone had that question too.

[abstract fog]

Do people help in this channel or others?

[potent geyser]

All channels are help channels

[abstract fog]

Ok

How about for add one

That I got from the unity store

[worldly cave]

unless its a really popular addon

we literally wont be able to help

check the addon itself on the asset store, see if it has a link to any discord server or maybe github discussions page

[mint gull]

Can i change how the builds are saved, what folder it goes into and whether it makes a subfolder

Its saving into the builds of a different project and also all over the place in the builds folder, super confusing

and i dont understand why i cant name the build before it saves

[stuck flower]

Whenever you click build it'll ask you where to put it

[mint gull]

ok it doesnt ask me at all i may be pushing the wrong button

[plain dagger]

build and run will use what you chose before btw

[stuck flower]

What button are you hitting then?

[plain dagger]

so dont use that next time

[mint gull]

ok thats what im doing i couldnt find just a save build button

this all i got

[plain dagger]

build profiles

oh man have you not looked in there???

you were picking the lazy quick build option

[mint gull]

I did but i didnt see the just build button

thanks

[plain dagger]

its there when you select a platform

[mint gull]

now i have to unclutter whatever the hell happened to my builds folders

[median slate]

bump

[stuck flower]

Did you clear your library like was suggested

[median slate]

elaborate?? I dont know what that means/what to do :[

[storm patio]

we already elaborated

was there some part of that you didn't understand?

[gray dirge]

The instructions earlier were quite clear, if you didn't understand them, you should have asked directly what part was unclear

[stuck flower]

you just not reading answers or what

[median slate]

oh what????

[stuck flower]

Whatever custom discord client you've got is broken

[median slate]

i guess vencord is tweaking, never had that happened before

[storm patio]

the first gif you sent also embedded fine

[median slate]

weeeird

[worldly cave]

your discord client specifically is tweaking

[median slate]

so sorry about that lol

[worldly cave]

im surprised people still risk it with custom clients especially after that ban fiasco a few years ago

[storm patio]

(though, gifs aren't great for showing issues, can't pause or scrub)

[median slate]

honestly this server has been kinda slow, dont know why

like my other servers are fine but like

everyones missing lmfao

okay i just restarted my discord

its all good now

[silent mica]

Is it about time to move to a more supported software stack? 😛

[median slate]

nope, i use a custom windows client too

[storm patio]

unity 2022 does support windows 7, not sure what you mean by that

[median slate]

oh

didnt know thaaat

i guess i meant like, im not using 7

[storm patio]

ah

well, that could be the issue then

[median slate]

I honestly would be shocked lol

[worldly cave]

am i tripping or you emphasized the wrong word there

[storm patio]

speech emphasis to text emphasis is wonky af

[median slate]

ykwhat i prolly did

[storm patio]

i read it fine tbh

but i feel like i emphasize the wrong thing a ton when i try to apply speech emphasis

[median slate]

awful first impression, hi im jakej and i make vrchat avatars from time to time

[storm patio]

there's an #🤝┃introductions channel, this isn't the place for it lol

[worldly cave]

let bro catch one win today

[median slate]

oh i know, sarcasm

[median slate]

please 🥀

[abstract fog]

Anyone have trouble with puppet master? I set it up and it worked but I set up a new model and it balls up

[mint gull]

any tldr on how to use unity version control

[storm patio]

probably the manual

[mint gull]

isnt that the too long part of the tldr

[storm patio]

try #🔀┃art-asset-workflow or perhaps #🏃┃animation

[mint gull]

i watched 2 youtube videos and they didnt really explain what im actually supposed to do

[storm patio]

learning will involve some amount of reading, get used to it tbh

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.collab-proxy@2.12/manual/QuickStartGuide.html

[mint gull]

Ok what i want to know is what buttons to press to make a new version to edit and what button to press to merge it back to one

[plain dagger]

cool now back to the docs!

[mint gull]

I read the entire page linked and then clicked more help and read the link on that too and it didnt explain

[plain dagger]

You check in changes made. not sure what you mean by "new version to edit"
https://docs.unity.com/en-us/unity-version-control/vcs-plugins/unityeditor-plugin/pending-changes-tab

[mint gull]

I have branches for the versions

not just pending changes

I dont understand if the changes im checking in go to the main branch or the workspace im on

then i dont understand when my branch is finished how do i merge that back to main or if im supposed to

[plain dagger]

Other branches can be merged into another: https://docs.unity.com/en-us/unity-version-control/vcs-plugins/unityeditor-plugin/merge
This is a concept in most version control software

[mint gull]

i have to make major overhauls not just little edits so I want to have a totally isolated version to make sure its completed and working afterwards instead of incremental progress on main

[plain dagger]

yea then working on a separate branch till its ready is the way to go

[mint gull]

but why does the button say merge from

instead of merge to

i dont know which one to merge from

main or the branch

[plain dagger]

If you want to merge foo -> main then you need to checkout main first and then merge in foo

the idea is you merge some other branch into your current one

[mint gull]

what is foo

[plain dagger]

placeholder name

[mint gull]

it should say merge into then? what does merge from mean

[plain dagger]

im just explaining how this works with examples 😐

[mint gull]

right im just saying i have two versions and i dont know which one to press the button on

[plain dagger]

it all depends on the source and the destination

[tropic oyster]

Guys I'm trying to data model my world and I'm frying my brain going in circles. And I try to simplify only realize my "simple" approach is not simple and probably won't scale lol

[plain dagger]

your current branch must be "destination" so you can merge "source" INTO that

[mint gull]

it literally says the words merge from

[plain dagger]

yea... "merge from this INTO my current"
Read the first sentence here: https://docs.unity.com/en-us/unity-version-control/vcs-plugins/unityeditor-plugin/merge-reference

from -> to

[tropic oyster]

does high level data modeling and abstractions count as "programming topics"

[mint gull]

ok then i press that and it brings me to this

[plain dagger]

then there are no changes to apply with such a merge

it does say that

[mint gull]

but i still have two branches

and i never merged them

[plain dagger]

doesnt mean they are different

This may mean you are doing it backwards too

as id presume your feature branch has more changes compared to main

[mint gull]

yea idk ive tried a bunch of buttons this is not working

thinking about just making a new project and copy pasting everything over and completely redoing this

[cursive abyss]

Hey guys i wanted to know if there is any way to create an Soft UI Background Shadow for like text oder Images. I asked chatgpt but he didnt gave me what i wanted and i dont find any tutorials

[mint gull]

is there a way to do version control just by backing up on my pc

[worldly cave]

you can use git and make a local repository

[mint gull]

I tried copy pasting the whole folder and then just starting a new project but it gets a bit messy, is there a native way to package all the scripts and scenes into a neat little folder

all these programs have so many features that i dont care for

watching this video on git and hes saying this is bad when this is exactly what i want

:(

[worldly cave]

no clue what that is supposed to represent

but you can absouletely have a local repo with git

so if you want that, do that.

[mint gull]

hes upset all the code is just in folders with version titles

[worldly cave]

thats something else entirely to what you are saying

[silent mica]

You generally can ignore most of the additional features if you don't need them. A lot of us use a few commands or buttons for most of our version control use.

[worldly cave]

i also dont know what kind of kurzgesagt ass videos youre watching about git, but almost everything is explained on https://git-scm.com/

most people dont even bother using branches

just a main branch and thats it, which for preprod is servicable, but yeah you can use the bare minimum

[mint gull]

all i want is to package the code that works into a folder and save it for a rainy day so if i screw up i have a few backups so i can start again

[worldly cave]

yes that is version control

and as ive said it 3 times already

you can use a local repository with git to do exactly what you want to do.

[mint gull]

man i dont want to learn 5,000 different pieces of software i just want to build the stuff i want to build

[worldly cave]

it takes like 15 minutes to learn the very basics of git

as well to set up a repository

[mint gull]

15 minutes times however many times someone tells me to download something new

[worldly cave]

you need to download like 1 thing for git... and its git

better yet you can use github, keep the repo on a "cloud" for free and use their GUI github desktop client

[mint gull]

why cant unity just save everything into a new folder of my choice

[worldly cave]

literally nothing is stopping you from doing it manually....

[balmy kettle]

that's honestly one of the absolute worst ways to handle versioning your code though. imagine needing extra gigabytes of space because you have a bunch of different versions that you keep in separate directories

[worldly cave]

if they dont want to learn git its their choice 🤷‍♂️

however inefficient it may be

[mint gull]

storage space not very much an issue atm

[worldly cave]

it will cascade

[mint gull]

I dont think i will hit 20 TB any time soon

[worldly cave]

theres nothing wrong with eating soup with a fork... but doing it just because you refuse to learn how to use a spoon is silly

[mint gull]

but if it comes to that i can deal with it later

[worldly cave]

theres also many other benefits to version control

[balmy kettle]

i mean, not yet, but your idea is going to eat storage.
plus if you ever want to work with anyone else, including as a job, you'll need to learn how to use version control anyway. it's an industry standard for a reason

[worldly cave]

youre also very stubborn about learning something very simple

[mint gull]

why would i want to work with other people 😨

[balmy kettle]

well you see, most people intend to actually complete things

plus, it's much easier to handle versioning with git, rather than waiting for the copy to complete (since that has to write all of the code to disk again), you just tag whatever specific commit was the last one for that version and bam, you can not only get back to it easily, but you can also find it super easy too

[worldly cave]

who tf 🤨

[worldly cave]

i cant imagine tinkering with a script and having to manually copy and paste an older version in every time i want to "restart"

instead of just telling git to discard any changes

saves so much time and removes any risk

[mint gull]

id way too easily lose track of what changes made which problems

[worldly cave]

you would if you go with your own approach

and you dont use git

git litterally tells you exactly what changes happened where

[mint gull]

no because i can just say f it and go back from what i know

[balmy kettle]

not with git you wouldn't, provided you actually use commit messages instead of dumb shit

[mint gull]

instead of the monstrous mess ive been making

[worldly cave]

youre not going to believe what git does for you

automatically whenever you want

but i think this conversation has run its course... im not going to try to sell you on git anymore, if you dont want to use it dont, youre only creating an issue for yourself, doesnt affect anyone else here, good luck!

[balmy kettle]

doesn't affect anyone here until they come back "help, i lost all my changes since the last time i copy pasted my entire project to another folder, how can i get them back"

[worldly cave]

not our problem, i am perfectly capable of ignoring people :)

[mint gull]

what do you guys do for importing packages that have way more things than you need and keeping the massive list of prefabs separated from what youre actually using

[worldly cave]

packages let you select exactly what you want to import

[mint gull]

can i download the package somewhere else and just pull in the ones i need?

well it might be nice to have them available

[worldly cave]

then import everything

[mint gull]

i accidentally imported one with so many and then i didnt see anywhere to unimport

[worldly cave]

there is no "unimport"

you delete the folders and assets

[mint gull]

yea

[worldly cave]

or

you use version control

and just revert back instantly

[balmy kettle]

you can selectively import more stuff later on, it will still be downloaded to your computer as the full package in the global package cache

[worldly cave]

but we know thats not going to happen

[stuck flower]

It's here

[worldly cave]

the entire thing gets downloaded, you just choose which part of it you want to add to the project

[mint gull]

how?

[mint gull]

the problem is it mixed all its prefabs with mine lol

[worldly cave]

that shouldnt happen, almost all packages get imported to their own root folder

[balmy kettle]

there's nothing special you need to do. that's just how it works. you can import the same asset as many times and it will only import what you've selected

[mint gull]

I fixed it by just making a new project and taking what I needed but i was curious how to avoid the problem in the future

[worldly cave]

unless you used their directories to save your own prefabs

[mint gull]

im asking how do i select parts of the package to import

[balmy kettle]

just to confirm, you are referring to assets right? because those do work different than actual packages which you can't even modify* anyway

because then it's literally just a matter of paying attention to what you are doing

[mint gull]

i installed a ui kit from the asset store

[worldly cave]

when you import a package there is a pop up that tells you which folders you want to import into the project

[storm patio]

git doesn't assume you do this automatically. with history you can bisect and blame

[worldly cave]

it looks like this

[balmy kettle]

-# *can't modify without extra work by embedding the package into the project

[loud swallow]

does anyone know why my tilemap has this like bleeding effect?

[mint gull]

ok, and then it imports the ones i selected but still downloads the rest into a global repository?

[worldly cave]

global package cache

not a repository, a repository is something else, something you dont want to use

[mint gull]

and to bring those in i just import the selected ones again

from the package manager

[worldly cave]

yes but you dont want to import the ones you already imported

you import everything else you want

[mint gull]

alright, thanks

[storm patio]

(btw this is a help/discussion channel, use #🏆┃daily-win or #1180170818983051344 to show off)

[rapid birch]

Ohh sorry

[loud swallow]

does anyone have any idea why this is happening...?

[storm patio]

seems like maybe a ppu mismatch

was the original texture just a png or smth else?

[loud swallow]

just a png

[loud swallow]

dont i set the ppu as what a tile is?

one tile is 16x16

[storm patio]

yeah the ppu does seem to be correct there

[humble kayak]

Question, how am I supposed to get a minimum spec list? I can run the game on my gaming pc and bad office pc perfectly fine at like 200 fps- but if I post this on steam I prob need to get that info.

My office pc has a very old 1660ti and my gaming pc has a 5070

My game is not very intensive due to heavy optimizations

[uncut karma]

There's a few ways. The classic way is to run on a potato. If it works there then that's your minimum spec. You can get get several friends to play your game and report on their findings. Average frame rates etc.

Know where the general hardware usages are. Even if it runs well is your game more CPU or GPU intensive? You can use the profiler (not in editor) to work out the time everything took on various hardware configurations or even use your gaming PC and approximate backwards. You can use task manager to work out RAM consumption.

Outside of approximating things or getting real data from people you know there are agencies that can benchmark your game and give you a proper performance analysis. Of course that last option has a cost associated with it.

Regardless of how to approach it, try to stick to the industry standard (last time I checked) of what minimum and recommended are trying to represent. Recommended is 60fps at 1080p and minimum is 30fps at 1080p.

[random flame]

if i am having issues likei am right now with getting shaders to load in instead of being a magenta pink is there any voice chats i can hop in to get help from some friendly people??

[copper gust]

no voice chats sorry

[balmy kettle]

https://unity.huh.how/shaders/errors

[random flame]

ty mate!

[random flame]

So I have a quick question. I haven’t had any issues with lag until I recently imported an asset that is fairly large with a lot of materials like lamps, benches chair, chairs, etc. if I load just the building with all of the extra decorations taken out, there is no lag, but I would like to have all the decorations already preinstalled. What can I do to increase my FPS? I have already did occlusion calling

[uncut karma]

Glad you had fun and learned some stuff. This sort of highlights the issue I was discussing earlier. Copypasta doesn't really teach you a lot because you aren't aware of the fundamentals of what you're creating and how. I encourage you to stick with that controller script. Try to expand it a little. Rewrite elements of it but apply it to something else. For example to a cube with a fixed camera so you can move a cube around the scene. Start to put walls in with physics colliders that stop the cube from moving outside an area. Maybe change the colour of the cube when it hits a wall?

[hushed hamlet]

I'd start with the profiler and looking at things like poly and batch counts.

A small trick. For complex geometry, turning off colliders can give you a surprising loading boost (at least back in earlier unity versions, I haven't needed to benchmark it in about 7 years). But the short answer with Unity is (usually) fixing batching and LODs - assuming that's what profiler (heavy gpu use) and stats screen (poly and batch count) is telling you

Which sounds easy but is not

[uncut karma]

As lloyd mentioned, try disabling colliders. Especially if they're mesh colliders. They are still relatively expensive but even more so if moving although decorations are unlikely to be moving. Checking the materials for any GPU instancing options is also a good thing to do. If it supports it then ensure its enabled

[copper gust]

afaik gpu instancing isn't always the best option

depends on situation

[uncut karma]

Oh absolutely, like in the case where you don't have a lot of duplicate objects or you have objects that look almost the same but have different textures. You're just incurring overhead by having GPU instancing enabled.

Usually though if you have lots of similar geometry you will notice a difference. Even if its just slight.

[storm patio]

!collab

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[indigo lily]

ty

sorry

[south vault]

Why isn't #1180170818983051344 loading

[untold gale]

killed a huge bug (programing bug) time to go to bed before i regret it!

[latent meadow]

loading fine here.

[hushed fjord]

guys how do i make a text cast a shadow

on tmp on a button

[copper gust]

what kind of shadow

[hushed fjord]

a regular shadow

[copper gust]

unity does not support that on it's own afaik

[hushed fjord]

oh damn

should i just double the text, change the opacity to something lower and slightly move it to imitate a shadow?

[latent meadow]

there are many tutorials on how to cast shadows from text. perhaps a google will help you.

[copper gust]

do you mean a drop shadow?

[hushed fjord]

yeah

[copper gust]

that's not a regular shadow 😛

[hushed fjord]

damn

[hushed fjord]

yeah english is not my first language

didnt know that was called drop shadow

[viral moth]

Hi, has anyone seen this with Unity Humanoid + Mixamo?

My character rotates ~90° on Y during an attack, even with Apply Root Motion off. The Mixamo clip seems to drive facing from the chest toward the enemy. I want to keep one stable overall facing direction for the whole character and ignore that chest-driven direction, while keeping the attack motion.

Has anyone fixed this cleanly?

[latent meadow]

#🏃┃animation

[coral violet]

Gotta love textures stretching when I scale them

[tranquil parrot]

Anyone wanna make a horror game with me

[viscid raft]

!collab

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[tranquil parrot]

Ok

Do you want to

Anyone

[latent meadow]

read the bot message that was just directed to you.

[tranquil parrot]

I’ll get hacked

Idk that site

[latent meadow]

that is an official Unity site. regardless, the rules do not change because you feel like it.

[tranquil parrot]

Do you want to dev with me tho

[latent meadow]

are you daft?

[tranquil parrot]

Yea

I did map

[latent meadow]

there is no collab here. stop asking. next one comes from a moderator.

[tranquil parrot]

Get out

Get aload of this guy

[latent meadow]

<@&502884371011731486> we have a clueless one

[tranquil parrot]

Sick

<@&502880774467354641> ban this kid

[sage basin]

If you're looking to collab with someone, use Unity Discussions

[tranquil parrot]

I got a high rank than you I called a admin

[sage basin]

and don't ping admins.

[tranquil parrot]

Ok

[unreal sluice]

Hi there, for collabs use Discussions

[tranquil parrot]

Then can I ping mods

[unreal sluice]

It's a Unity website

[tranquil parrot]

Yes ok

[latent meadow]

that's 4 telling him to use collab site.

[tranquil parrot]

That’s all I needed I never need a mod or this pickle to tell me

Only a admin

Got it I’ll go there

[unreal sluice]

@latent meadow is a user that always helps and support other users in this community. He's also a resident, meaning he's a trustworthy user in the discord server
You can trust what they say

[viscid raft]

No and please don't DM me. The bot message is clear on what you can do when it comes to collaborations.

[tranquil parrot]

I NEVER

Admin tell this guy to stop

Stop using emojis on text @viscid raft you get banned

[sage basin]

!warn 1491120773870653551 Don't send unsolicited DMs, unnecessarily mention other roles, or make collaboration posts. If you're going to continue trolling here you will be banned.

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[tranquil parrot]

I NEVER LIAR

[sage basin]

!mute 1491120773870653551 7d come back in a week when you've cooled off

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[latent meadow]

best to ask #📱┃mobile

[fallen dragon]

i see, thanks

[solar vapor]

Hello everyone, I recently observed that ironSource ads are no longer serving in any of my apps. I’m using AdMob mediation with ironSource integrated.

From what I understand, ironSource direct demand might have been sunset recently. can anyone confirm if this is the reason for no fill? Or is there any workaround?

[latent meadow]

i think ironsource is part of #1390346533127458889 , so you might have better luck moving the question to that forum

[solar vapor]

Thank you so much..

[charred fog]

Wasn't it in the news that it is shut down by Unity now, or going to be shut down?

https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hjezb14o11g

[solar vapor]

Looks like we need to rely more on other networks

[fallen dragon]

Can someone help? I made a build for android, and i have only 70mb worth of assets, but when i install the game its 200mb???

[latent meadow]

again, this is a question for #📱┃mobile

[fallen dragon]

its the same on windows, so im looking how to generaly reduce build size

its 200mb both on windows and android with only 70mb worth of assets

[latent meadow]

you understand that Unity itself, which displays yours assets, takes up space too, right?

[fallen dragon]

i understand, but isnt it too much? id expect unity to use 50mb or 75mb, but not 125mb+

[latent meadow]

i would say no, that is not a lot, but others may have ideas

[humble kayak]

Unity takes 150 mb for me? I dont see the problem, productivity apps are very ram-heavy

Oh wait we talking about the unity build

Nvrm lol

[fallen dragon]

i set the code build mode to optimize for build size instead of runtime speed, it still runs stable but build size is now only 165 MB

[safe garden]

whenever I change fog density on the environment tab, hit play, it resets it to 0.001 - is there a way to keep it at what I set it to?

[latent meadow]

first step is making sure it still does that after restarting the project

[safe garden]

gonna try now ty

[latent meadow]

also, isn't the environment tab settings for baking lighting?

[safe garden]

wtf it loaded fine now

thanks man

saved me a ton of time

oh wait let me try play, might have spoken too soon 😄

yea it reverted back to default - I think there may be a script overriding the fog settings, have to ask our unity dev

[copper gust]

no

[fleet crater]

Aoa

How are u guys?

[latent meadow]

howdy. #🌱┃start-here

[faint hound]

Which channel should I use, if i have a question regarding the Project settings in Unity?

[latent meadow]

this one

[faint hound]

I use HDRP and i alwalys have this Warning. However if i click on open, the Box for Volumetric Fog is checked. So i dont really know what to do

[latent meadow]

you may want to google exactly that, while waiting for a response.

[clever comet]

How can I tell my renderer to allow two direction lights to render two separate shadows?

[latent meadow]

#1391720450752516147

[lament fox]

unity making a "make game" button now bro 💔

[latent meadow]

AI has been in Unity for a while now. this most recent is just expansions for it

[faint hound]

I found a thread 2 years old, still no solution.

[latent meadow]

in Edit > Project Settings > Graphics > HDRP Settings
there should be a Frame Settings section. is there a Scene tab in it?

[faint hound]

There is no Scene tab visible

[latent meadow]

ok, i suggest talking to #1391720450752516147 then

[faint hound]

alright, thanks

[hasty ether]

Sometimes the visuals of my game disappoints me 😔. How can i improve the visual quality of my game?

[uncut karma]

That's a bit of broad question but generally speaking lighting plays an incredibly huge role. That combined with correct material setups and materials that compliment each other.

Outside of that without knowing much about your project it's hard to give any real advice.

[rough field]

You learn color theory, lighting and environment art.

[mint gull]

red streaks are a good design in a hospital, for example, because red has way more positive connotations than negative, like love, passion, energy

[hasty ether]

I am aiming for Desktop, Android and IOS. I am stuck right now. If I try to increase the visual quality like (light, shadows) the game fps gets too low for handheld devices.

[vivid cedar]

Have different settings/textures/etc for different build targets.

[latent meadow]

you are supposed to bake lighting, in general, for low end platforms. the visual quality can be amazing. also, if you are going to continue, please make a Thread

and expecting a mobile device to compete realtime visually with PCs is generally not a wise thought (it gets quite good with tricks though)

[hasty ether]

Oh that's a nice idea.. But they won't look similar on all devices.. I want my game to be simple but with good visuals on every device..

[latent meadow]

i suggest you start the long journey of researching how, then.

[hasty ether]

I appreciate your help 🙏

[vagrant bramble]

Is there a way to rename or distinguish components? I got 6 box colliders for one hitbox (for face distinction)

[potent geyser]

Not natively, no. I suppose you could write some custom inspector for it.

Otherwise, child them to the to the object and let them call up to the parent whenever they collide with something.

[vivid cedar]

put them on differently need child objects

[stuck flower]

You should probably make those separate child objects for the sake of differentiation. Multiple colliders on a single object operate as a sort of amalgam, you can't really discern which individual one is hit

[vivid cedar]

Or - individually reference each in an array or with individual variables

public Collider TopCollider, BottomCollider, LeftCollider, RightCollider, FrontCollider, BackCollider;```

[wispy pollen]

Is there any way to make my movement smooth and not choppy?

[latent meadow]

you should take the Junior Programmer Pathway on the learning site. it explains the common fixes

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[viscid egret]

unity shouldnt label non LTS as recommended -> lts should be recommended esp to beginners

[latent meadow]

we are all annoyed about that one

[viscid egret]

recommended is like beta -> then noobs go complain to asset creators about why its not working with what unity recommended

[rough field]

its not beta and it honestly makes no difference if you are not updating like at all

[latent meadow]

"like beta", and it pretty much is.

[copper gust]

They want those versions tested

[rough field]

how so

[latent meadow]

i really am not going to get into it, but you can go use it for yourself if you choose.

[rough field]

I am, thats why I said it

[viscid egret]

more so breaking shader changes every version what i noticed or many

[latent meadow]

there are several issues that are Editor level that you, the user, cannot fix. they are just bugs that are there

the most stable experience, aside from 2022 😅 would be 6.0

[rough field]

I pretty much upgrade my project every month or so to latest, so I can stay up to date, updating with bigger version gaps is more likely to cause issues

especially now during the CoreCLR transition

[latent meadow]

you are the exact crowd Unity wants using 6.4. please make sure to file bug reports as you find things

[rough field]

I did that a lot on unity 2023, everything I sent got fixed in a month or two. I haven't had any issues lately

[tidal nymph]

How do I fix this error

[latent meadow]

https://www.take-a-screenshot.org/windows.html

[tidal nymph]

Anyone,m

Anyone?

[latent meadow]

read the #📖┃code-of-conduct

do not spam.

[stuck flower]

In case the other answer didn't help,
https://screenshot.help/

[tidal nymph]

!ask

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[tidal nymph]

?ask

!ask how do I fix this error

[vagrant root]

:thinking: Asking Questions

:mag: Search the internet for your question!
:book: Use the API Scripting Reference and User Manual and this troubleshooting site for commonly posted issues.
:wrench: Attempt to debug your issue.
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[latent meadow]

Read the bot message you are spamming.

[stuck flower]

You're supposed to read the bot message, not keep spamming it

[tidal nymph]

Wym

[stuck flower]

I mean you're supposed to read the bot message, not keep spamming it

[gray flame]

What sort of impact does it have on performance and build size if I use layered photoshop PSBs instead of PNGs for character graphics?

[latent meadow]

it should affect neither. Unity will convert them to its useable formats. the source file will be stripped and not included in the build. this is my understanding. someone with more direct experience with it may have more info

[gray frigate]

The only way it could matter would be if Unity had different default importer settings for that file format

e.g. if it always imported them as completely uncompressed textures (it does not do this)

I don't think it does

hunanbean is correct: the file is imported into some internal format that Unity likes

similarly, it does not matter if you import a .wav, an .mp3, an .ogg, etc.

[stuck flower]

Pretty sure the only "cost" to this is import time

[gray flame]

thank you! I appreciate all the responses. Sounds like I can just use what makes the most sense for my workflow on that particular asset

[radiant pewter]

are there no new flash deals today? (on the asset store)

[dusk lichen]

should i never use getcomponent in update functions unless absolutely necessary?

[stuck flower]

It should never be necessary to use get component in update

[dusk lichen]

so if getcomponent is needed in update, it means ive implemented it wrong pretty much?

[latent meadow]

that is strange. i am not seeing them on my end either

[dusk lichen]

and i should refactor?

[radiant pewter]

I'm thinking May 7th could just be when all the deals end, rather than when the last new deals appear

that would be a shame though